It was high anyway, if he was a stock market company he would be an international giant like Apple.

With a PRO12 title with 'minnows' Connacht and promotion out of the Championship this season with Bristol his trajectory has been on an upward curve for some time .

But on Sunday his Barbarians team launched the equivalent of the new IPhone, full of new ground breaking gizmos which take the game to the next level.

Even for famously flamboyant Barbarians, the 63-45 win on Sunday was something a bit special.

Barbarians Coach Pat Lam

Statistics can be misleading - and it is important to put this game into perspective. It was a friendly against a second team England side missing up for 14 players from Saracens and Exeter Chiefs who played the day before in the Premiership final, won by the London club.

So what we witnessed at Twickenham in the humid sunshine was not a Test match, but it was a humiliation of the national side.

Co-captain for the day George Ford admitted as much after the match calling it embarrassing.

Lam’s superstar side, put together in just five days, half of which was spent drinking, scored nine tries to put more points on England at Twickenham than any other side in history.

Reflect on that for a moment.

More than New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Ireland, Wales or France have ever managed.

The Barbarians team celebrate with the Quilter Cup

It makes you wonder whether more teams should play with the free abandonment of the Barbarians - because make no mistake, yes it was an exhibition game, but Eddie Jones would loved to have kept the Baabaas scoreless.

Don't forget he came into the game under pressure, with England finishing fifth in the 2018 Six Nations and heading to South Africa, a country they have never won a series, for a bruising three-match series.

Jones and England have now lost four games in a row thanks to Lam and his brilliant Barbarians.

In a way their attacking game was an extension of how Bristol have played at times this season - average in defence but lethal with the ball.

It would be wrong to expect the Bristol Bears to play the same way every game next season; despite a series of superstar signings, the likes of former Barbarians: Steven Luatua, Charles Piutau, Ian Madigan, Luke Morahan and John Afoa, they simply don’t have the personnel to be able to play such a staggeringly open game every week, especially in the wet and cold of winter rugby.

John Afoa of Barbarians

But the above names are still an exciting prospect - throw in the expansive Harry Thacker from Leicester Tigers, Samoan internationals Chris Vui and Alapati Leiua, along with Tonga’s Siale Piutau and young dynamos Mat Protheroe and Dan Thomas and you have got the building blocks of a team who can entertain.

The big question, which was not entirely answered last season in the Championship, will be can Bristol keep teams out. Especially the big power sides like Saracens and Exeter who use their forward ball carriers so effectively to break the game line.

Finding a way to play more than just Barbarians rugby will be what Lam must be judged on next.

He is certainly starting early - the first of the players were back in for the start of pre-season yesterday, with the more seasoned pros returning a few weeks later.

On Friday the 130-year-old club officially enter a new era as the Bears. If they can play like the history making Barbarians did then 2018/19 promises to be a highly exciting season.